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Conference on trust in a digital society
CWI hosts a multi-disciplinary conference on trust and trust management in a digitalized society. Topics will focus on social, economic and behavioral aspects of trust, trust in networks, mobile systems and cloud …
CWI researchers involved in 2 consortia receiving millions in funding
Several CWI researchers are involved in projects that have received substantial funding under the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). The Human-Centered Data Analytics group is represented in a project, led by Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, …
Misdoom 2023 Call for Contributions and Keynote Speaker Announcement
5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media
The power of metadata analysis in understanding online search behavior
Computer scientist Tessel Bogaard has demonstrated how metadata can improve our understanding of online search behaviour in vertical search engines that grant access to curated collections. She defended her thesis on 10 …
Poster award for research on bias
Savvina Daniil won the first prize at the poster prize awards at ICT.OPEN 2023. Her poster on the source of bias in recommender systems was chosen out of 20 abstract submissions.
Award for thesis on biased book recommendation systems
Julia Sudnik won the Amsterdam Data Science thesis award. She did an internship at CWI on ‘The effect of feedback loops on fairness in rankings from recommendation systems’.
Cultural AI team wins special award at heritage hackathon
A team with two PhD students from CWI won the Polyvocality Award (Meerstemmigheidsprijs) at the annual hackathon organized by Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed.
Shaping the technologies that impact our democracy
Misinformation is just one of many problems we face with the rise of artificial intelligence. Technology is impacting our democracy in an unprecedented way. That is why CWI, the university of Amsterdam …
